More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
